Soundtrack Of My Life: Julia Stone

The first song I remember hearing Midnight Oil – ‘Beds Are Burning’ “My dad and mum are both big Midnight Oil fans and that record came out when I was three or four. They played it a lot in the house and when I was a bit older, it was the one that got everybody dancing. It’s obviously an extremely political song but it’s also got such an amazing energy. The whole ‘Diesel And Dust’ record is pretty punchy and drivey but ‘Beds Are Burning’ still gets to me.” The first album I ever owned ‘William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet – Music From The Motion Picture’ “I remember the movie coming out and everyone was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes. We all had posters up and went to the mall to buy the soundtrack because it was such an amazing film, but it [also] had such an incredible soundtrack. When I hear songs from that now, it still takes me right back. I would have been 12 or 13 and I probably [used] my own money [to buy it] because I had started teaching trumpet to little kids in the school band.” The first gig I went to Jebediah, community centre in Western Sydney, Australia, in 1999 or 2000 “I went to my dad’s gigs as a kid but that probably doesn’t count! The first gi...